Category Archives: Tips and Tricks

Google Chrome: Problem in Display of Unicode Non-English Characters

Published on: July 30, 2012 by Lalit Kumar

Recently, my installation of Google Chrome browser began to have a display problem while showing Unicode non-English characters. I work a lot with Hindi language as well. On Facebook also, … Read more

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Increase Laptop’s Speaker Volume Without Changing Sound Card

Published on: June 23, 2012 by Lalit Kumar

More and more people are shifting from desktop computer to laptops. Laptops are handy and portable but their speakers are not very powerful. At times we come across a music … Read more

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Properly Citing Tweets in Publications

Published on: March 29, 2012 by Lalit Kumar

Twitter is a microblogging website that allows users to share their updates in no more than 140 characters. The phenomenal success and popularity of Twitter has made it a very … Read more

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How to Take a Screenshot

Published on: March 23, 2012 by Lalit Kumar

Taking screen shot from your computer monitor is one of the most fundamental and oft-repeated task by the computer users. The new users, however, feel a bit confused as to … Read more

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How to Send Fax for Free

Published on: March 19, 2012 by Lalit Kumar

Even in these times of scanned copies being circulated and accepted for most purposes –every now and then one comes across a situation which has only one way out: SEND … Read more

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CSS: Div Doesn’t Fully Expand in Height

Published on: March 10, 2012 by Lalit Kumar

The Problem Create a DIV and let’s call it “wrapper div”. When you’ll create a DIV inside the wrapper and its height will increase due to increasing content –the wrapper … Read more

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Photoshop: Write Circular Text and Text Around Other Shapes

Published on: March 3, 2012 by Lalit Kumar

Photoshop newbies often ask this question and are mostly advised to  learn path drawing. Path drawing is for the serious Photoshop professionals. But if you quickly want to write circular … Read more

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Slow AddThis: Reason and Solution

Published on: February 25, 2012 by Lalit Kumar

AddThis is one of the leading bookmark services on Internet. Millions of websites around the world use this service to display social networking and sharing buttons. There is no doubt … Read more

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Fancy Fonts, Stylish Text, Nice Looking Website!

Published on: February 20, 2012 by Lalit Kumar

In my previous article, I wrote about how to use Google’s Font API for writing in usual fonts on your website. The best thing about Google’s API is that it … Read more

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How to Use Fancy Stylish Fonts in a Website

Published on: February 20, 2012 by Lalit Kumar

If you are a professional web developer or even if you have designed a basic HTML website for yourself –you must have wished “it would have been great, if I … Read more

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How to Better Use Facebook for Social Networking

Published on: February 17, 2012 by Lalit Kumar

Facebook is an extremely powerful social networking tool. There are more than 800 million users hooked onto this platform. They share their lives with their friends using Facebook; but have … Read more

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Mathematical Love: Graph Patterns for Your Valentine!

Published on: February 15, 2012 by Lalit Kumar

On this Valentine’s Day, plotting a heart shaped graph using Google search and sending it to one’s valentine became a sort of craze. A number of bloggers blogged about the … Read more

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Quickly Delete All or Multiple Friends from Facebook

Published on: February 14, 2012 by Lalit Kumar

“How can I delete all my friends from my Facebook list?” A few people have asked me this question lately. The first thing I wonder about is “why?”… but online … Read more

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Valentine Special: Love Heart from Google

Published on: February 10, 2012 by Lalit Kumar

When you enter a mathematical equation in Google search engine, it tries to plot the equation in the form of a graph. The following equation, produces the image of a … Read more

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How to Remove Leading and Trailing Spaces in MS-Word

Published on: November 14, 2011 by Lalit Kumar

More often than not I get MS-Word files in which a lot of lines either begin with unnecessary spaces or they have lots of trailing spaces –and if it is … Read more

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PDF Tips: How to Create PDF Files

Published on: October 28, 2011 by Lalit Kumar

The first thing that you should know about creating a PDF file is that a PDF file is actually gets printed. In other words, in case of PDF files, creation … Read more

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How to View Only Unread Emails in Gmail

Published on: October 24, 2011 by Lalit Kumar

Sometimes, we tighten our belts and get ready to finish off the unread pending emails in our inbox. Unfortunately, as of now, Gmail does not provide a straight simple way … Read more

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Windows Notepad Editor for Programmers

Published on: October 22, 2011 by Lalit Kumar

This year, one of the best software tool I found is Programmer’s Notepad. As the name suggests, it is an editor loaded with features that are useful for people who … Read more

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PDF Tips: How to Edit, Annotate, Comment on a PDF File

Published on: October 22, 2011 by Lalit Kumar

Sometimes it becomes important to be able to put comments on a PDF file just like we do in case of Word processing office applications (e.g. MS Word). Thankfully, there … Read more

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How to Shorten a Long URL (Web Address)

Published on: September 30, 2011 by Lalit Kumar

A number of times we come across long Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) on Internet. Pasting these miles long URLs in limited character services (like Twitter allows only 140 characters per … Read more

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Get Full Current URL from Address Bar

Published on: September 28, 2011 by Lalit Kumar

Yesterday, I needed to retrieve the URL of a webpage as shown in the address of browser. I was coding in PHP –so my first choice was to use PHP … Read more

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CityVille: Cool Tips

Published on: April 24, 2011 by Lalit Kumar

On behest of two kids I begin to play CityVille on Facebook because they had asked me to send them sun glasses, visor, chairs and what not! Before this I … Read more

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AJAX: Passing parameters to onreadystatechange function

Published on: November 27, 2008 by Lalit Kumar

When the response of an AJAX request is ready on the server the value of the readyState property of the XMLHttpRequest object is changed to “4″ which means the request … Read more

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Rapid website development

Published on: September 24, 2008 by Lalit Kumar

I am not seriously into PHP stuff. But it is a very good platform if you quickly want to come up with a dynamic website. It’s very easy and quick. … Read more

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Building strings in Java

Published on: August 25, 2008 by Lalit Kumar

Building and manipulating strings is one of the most common task performed in any programming language. In Java, the String class provides the functionality of creating and manipulating the strings … Read more

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